Practice
Since 2019
Architectural design and BIM at Studio Rigoldi, Milan — residential projects and apartment renovations from concept to construction documentation, plus the studio's BIM Cloud and server.
Ardit Tashi — architect and BIM specialist, Milan.
I design spaces that are meant to be felt, not just looked at.
I am passionate about crafting spaces that evoke emotion and engage every sense: the interplay between carefully chosen materials, the way light moves through a room, and the shadows it leaves behind.
I believe the happiness and well-being of the people who use a space is the most important outcome of good design. A building can be photogenic and still be a poor place to live. My work is aimed at the other thing — environments that look considered and feel comfortable to be inside.
I learn quickly and I like problems that do not have an obvious answer. Ten years across offices in Rome, Milan and London have taught me to work inside a team, hold a deadline, and take a brief the whole way to a delivered thing.
In short
Where I am, and what I do
Training
2012 — 2020
MSc Architecture, Built Environment, Interiors — Politecnico di Milano.
BSc Science of Architecture — Sapienza Università di Roma.
Outside the office
Ongoing
Charcoal portraits, digital art and photography — and a set of web products I design and build end to end.
How I work
Drawing first, model second
Ten years of charcoal portraits turned out to be training for architecture rather than a distraction from it. Drawing a face teaches you to look for a long time before committing a line — which is the same discipline a plan needs.
The model comes after. I work in ArchiCAD day to day and coordinate BIM for the practices I have worked in, because a coordinated model is what makes a drawing set trustworthy. Renders in Twinmotion and Corona, modelling in Rhinoceros and Grasshopper when the geometry asks for it.
What I try to avoid is the model becoming the design. Software will happily produce something plausible and empty. The part that matters — where light falls, how a threshold feels, what a person does when they walk in — is decided before any of it is drawn.
I've written that out at more length in drawing before modelling; the other notes are in the blog.
Software & skills
- ArchiCAD
- BIM coordination
- Rhinoceros
- Grasshopper
- AutoCAD
- Autodesk Revit
- SketchUp
- Twinmotion
- Lumion 3D
- Unreal Engine 5
- Corona Render
- V-Ray
- Cinema 4D
- Blender
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
Documents
Portfolio, thesis and CV
Architecture portfolio
Academic and professional architectural work — design, BIM and rendering.
MA thesis
Aging in One Place: Age-Friendly Housing in Milan — Politecnico di Milano.
Curriculum vitae
The full record — practice, education and workshops, filterable by kind.
Beyond architecture
Software & web ventures
Alongside architectural practice I design and build web products end to end — interface, backend and infrastructure. Among them Letturia, Debuto, QR Code Harbor, Teach Me Chess and Smart Money API.
Elsewhere
Find me here
Let's create something
Got an interesting project, a commission, or want to collaborate? Tell me more.
Temporary — choosing an identity
Three logos
Redrawn as vectors from the three sheets. The mark, the wordmark and the tagline are separate parts, so any mark can be paired with any setting. Use the Logo switch in the header to try one across the whole site.
Logo 1Geometric — straight strokes, holds at any size
At size
Logo 2Calligraphic — swelling curves, rounded apex
At size
Logo 3Serif — hairline against a heavy crescent
At size